Design Diaries: Fashion Design

In a fashion landscape saturated with visual noise, fleeting microtrends, and fast fashion, small brands and independent designers face a complex and contradictory industry. In Central and Eastern Europe, awareness of, appreciation for, and access to independent fashion vary widely. As sustainability becomes a starting point rather than a distinguishing feature, how can small labels develop distinct creative languages, experiment, and rethink our relationship with clothing? And how can sustainability extend to the businesses, creative processes, and people behind the garments?

Do Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Hungarian designers and brands encounter similar challenges today, or are their experiences fundamentally different?

If you’re curious about what’s happening next door, come join us!

At the second Design Diaries event, professionals from fashion design, management, and education will reflect on their experiences and the contexts shaping their work. Beyond conventional portfolio presentations, personal stories, garments, materials, makers, and inspirations will reveal the human side of fashion as a lived, embodied practice rather than merely an aesthetic phenomenon.

Speakers:

Beata Modrzyńska (PL) – Fashion Designer & Creative Director, Founder of aporeei

Mária Štraneková (SK) – Fashion Designer & Associate Professor

Noémi Sziládi (HU) – Founder and Designer of Kamay Ko

Patrik Platko & Max Basala (SK) – Fashion Designers, Founders of GONOE

Petra Ptáčková (CZ) – Founder & Creative Director of PETRA PTACKOVA brand

Terike from Budapest (HU) - Independent fashion platform

The regular supporter of the Design Diaries event series is Junibor (Association of Young Winemakers); for each occasion, a different winemaker visits edit’s welcoming living room. At the event on October 29, Károly Csernus Jr. will represent the Upper Hungarian CSERNUS Winery & Vineyards, bringing along several of the winery’s excellent wines to ensure no glass goes empty.

The program is organized by the edit team, with the collaboration of Urbanum and the support of the Visegrád Fund.

The program will be held in English.

The event is free, but registration is required due to limited capacity. Please register at the following link: https://forms.gle/CmQ2B6aP7U3GuqQ18

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Design Diaries is a five-part event series that explores the contemporary challenges facing design from a regional perspective, the specific characteristics of individual countries’ design strategies, and current issues concerning designers across various fields. During the thematic evenings, regional representatives of each topic (both designers and theorists) share their thoughts through short presentations inspired by professional diary entries. The aim of the program is to facilitate knowledge exchange and professional networking in the fields of design and object culture among the Visegrád Four countries, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary, and to foster potential future collaborations.

You can find out more about the upcoming events at:

https://www.editbudapest.com/design-diaries

Partners:

The Faculty of Architecture and Design STU, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Łodzi, Academic Design Centre, Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomas Bata University Zlín, CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects, Slovak Design Center

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The project is co-financed by the governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.